Real 90s girls always knew she sucked. Thoroughly horrible vibes from the start, and then there was that whole bizarre episode where she appeared to be keeping four Japanese women as pets

Agenda for the founding meeting of the non-tenure #MCRHumNetwork? - a monthly online lecture by MCRs and independents? - e-mailing list? - survey? - related to former: a British Academy Small Grant? - ambition: a COST action? - funding networking? What else? JOIN US! Message me.

Precies. De leugens van Rutte bleven altijd onbestraft, net als die van Yesilgōz. Terwijl die leugens grote maatschappelijke schade veroorzaakten (toeslagenschandaal, haatklimaat tegen vluchtelingen). Voor partijen als de VVD gelden andere (of: geen) regels bij veel media en in de politiek

Job alert! We are looking for talented PhD researchers to write a dissertation on Benzaiten worship in modern Japan or Mazu pilgrimages in Taiwan, as part of the ERC project "Maritime Goddesses: Transnational Connections, Blue Environments, and Ritual Care in East- and Southeast Asia" (MARGO).

Free thesis topic for anyone looking for a thesis topic: The Council of Nicaea (325) in Popular Culture

Oh hey by the way, this book exists now and you should all read it! Annals in Carolingian Europe: A Genre in Motion; ed. by Sören Kaschke and Bart van Hees, with articles by a.o. McKitterick, Flierman, Davis, Evans, Story, Diesenberger (and also yours truly). www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

“Bedford borough council was not responsible for the creation of the moon” man, someone’s having a fun day at work

Kijk 👇👇 @annalunapost.bsky.social in @nrc.nl www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

new episode alert! in this one @profgabriele.com talks with @anotheraspirin.bsky.social about St. Nicholas! basically he became the folk hero (eventually Santa Claus) because he was a rich guy who was nice to people and helped them with his $.... CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT HAPPENING??? pca.st/9sueq4cp

this matches every other survey which shows that managers and upper admin love AI and the people who actually do the work fucking hate it

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This is truly terrifying, like the Nazis we are simply erasing people from existence, and it is happening without anyone questioning it.

is this why they call it holy scripture

it me

I really really really am not bad at cooking but I think today will be the day I admit that risotto just isn't my thing. A 25% success rate (AT BEST) just isn't worth the effort.

Anyway, good news! Open-ended lectureship in early medieval history at KCL. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

More ramblings about Radbod! This time I delve into the later traditions surrounding him. longhairedkingsblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/r...

A banger, not in English: posted. youtu.be/pcvr6FdExbU

Offre d’emploi – Un.e Chargé.e de cours à temps plein en « Philosophie ancienne et médiévale » (Université de Namur) rmblf.be/2026/02/10/o...

Publication – Nicolas Michel, « Une collection épistolaire plurielle. Diffusion, réception et influence des Variæ de Cassiodore (VIe-XVe siècles) » rmblf.be/2026/02/10/p...

There's an old Epic Rap Battle Of History where Abe Lincoln screams in Obama's face "You! I wanna like you but don't TALK about change JUST DO IT!!" and I have been thinking about that one a lot lately.

do you have a favorite episode so far?

Any doctoral student or early career scholar want to give an online guest lecture on Marcion (preferably) or second century Christianity (but not gnosticism) more broadly? I think I can offer you a $100 stipend for a 45 minute talk. Needs to be MWF 10-1050.

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

Publication – Leen Bervoets, « Vrijheid in de middeleeuwse stad. Het ontstaan van het poorterschap in Vlaanderen, 12de-13de eeuw » rmblf.be/2026/02/08/p...

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

🥳New #medievalsky #earlymodern Open Access Article! It's about the roles and lives of women in the Alps, including: - How generic male language in sources hides the presence of women - ⛏️ Female construction workers building roads across the Alps -⚖️ A lord turning women into men (legally speaking)

This👇. When grading this week, I found myself wondering more than once whether the student was using AI or not, which kinda kills the joy of grading well-written papers

The thing I hate the absolute most about the proliferation of GenAI in "writing" is that I'm now being trained to become suspicious when I read a student paper that is Actually Good, instead of just celebrating its quality and congratulating the student on a Job Well Done.

"A truly sensational find" made by my friend and colleague Adrian C. Pirtea 👀👇 #Syriac #ChristianArabic #ChristianEast

Today, is the feast of St Agnes of Rome. She lived during Diocletian's reign, & was one of the first virgin martyrs to be widely venerated as a saint, largely due to the promotion of her cult by Ambrose of Milan. According to her legend, she refused to marry. (1/n)

Our first RHS lecture of 2026 is '"Alike in Appearance but not in Scope": Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe', with Prof Charles West (Edinburgh) bit.ly/49GlmMR 6pm, Friday 6 February. In-person booking is now full but registration to attend this event online remains open #Skystorians

Silly CIA, thinking you can maintain something like a "factbook" in this day and age... 🤷‍♂️ apnews.com/article/cia-...

Ik heb nooit columnist willen worden, maar toen @mareonline.nl me vroeg kon ik onmogelijk nee zeggen. Mijn eerste column gaat over de ik-kon-nou-eenmaal-niet-anders-retoriek van bestuurders en nonnen. www.mareonline.nl/opinie/ik-wi...

[hope all the people who answered can see this, too] THANKS everyone! That helped a lot, especially finding different search terms and indeed for simply realizing that my author got this from ... somewhere. Hooray for asking, hooray for answering, and hooray for academic cooperation! :-)

Hey #MedievalSky Hivemind! Here's a 14c Norwegian altarpiece with the Persian king Khosrow II sitting in a glass sphere constructed so he could pretend to be God and make it rain on his subjects. I found references to this story in Norse sources but nowhere else - am I overlooking something obvious?

An extraordinary medieval manuscript has been discovery at Shrewsbury School giving fresh insight into the development of medieval Christian writing www.myshrewsbury.co.uk/blog/medieva...

Can anyone recommend a good article summarizing the current status quaestionis of the horse domestication/Indo-European origins/kurgans/chariots debate for an upper level undergraduate course? It could be a popular article.

Sometimes I just open Partridges Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (4th ed, 1951) and wish we'd still use words like 'galopshus'.

AI being synonymous with some of the worst, most depraved crimes possible, and spearheaded by the worst people in the world, tells you all you need to know

🚨Phd Position in #Digital #Medieval Manuscripts Studies You will be part of an international research project, applying innovative computational methods to the study of the transmission history of the Latin Physiologus and the Bestiary. 📍Radbout University (NL) 📆15 Jan 2026 ▶️ tinyurl.com/3wtcxpfc

𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 Éric Fournier, Maijastina Kahlos (eds) More Info: bit.ly/49KnjI8 #Women #Antiquity #Medieval #Womensstudies #Europe #Africa #History #Medievalsky #Medievalists

Publication – « La Nature et le Droit médiéval. Entre savoirs et normes », éd. Pierre-Anne Forcadet, Corinne Leveleux-Teixeira rmblf.be/2026/01/09/p...

Publication – « Speculations: The Centennial Issue » (Speculum, 101, janv. 2026) rmblf.be/2026/01/09/p...

Ungrateful little shits. Society gave them so much, and when they're asked to pay just a little bit back, an amount they wouldn't even notice, they throw tantrums like the world's biggest babies.

Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended. They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision. Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Ook voor de GGZ is het belang van de GK2026 groot. Ik ben dan ook trots op het programma van GL-PvdA in Doetinchem (mentaal welzijn krijgt daarin een belangrijke plaats). Je vindt mij op plek 18. Meer info over de lijst: www.doetinchemsvizier.nl/nieuws/polit...

PhD thesis FINISHED!!!

stop trying to make "future historians" happen. you can just say you've passed any hope of meaningful justice in this world onto an imagined secular afterlife. that's fine.

Geweldige historici om te volgen in 2026 go.bsky.app/E71xMVM